1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. If a mitochondrion has a length of 5 µm and a student’s drawing of the mitochondrion is 10 mm, what is the magnification of the drawing? | x2000 | 2. What does the size of the standard deviation indicate about data? | How widely the data are spread above and below the mean | 3. What property of water makes it a good evaporative coolant? | high heat of vaporization | 4. Which bases are connected to its complementary base in a base pair by three hydrogen bonds? | A and T | 5. Describe the tertiary structure of proteins. | interactions from R groups | 6. What is the function of cellulose in plants? | cell wall | 7. What route is used to export proteins from the cell? | Rough endoplasmic reticulum → Golgi apparatus → plasma membrane | 8. What is a difference between cohesion and adhesion? | c:water to water a:water to other substances | 9. Compare osmosis and diffusion | both passive; d: particles o:water | 10. What property of water makes it good for transporting material around a living organism? | solvent | 11. What type of ribosomes are found in prokayotes? | 80S | 12. What organelle is found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes? | ribosomes | 13. What enzyme breaks hydrogen bonds in DNA replication? | helicase | 14. What enzyme links Okazaki fragments? | ligase | 15. If there is 20% adenine in a DNA sample, how much cytosine would you expect? | 30% | 16. What is denaturation? | permanent change in the shape of a protein | 17. What are Okazaki fragments? | sections of DNA created on lagging strand | 18. What is the nucleosome? | DNA plus histones | 19. What is a competitive inhibitor? | block active site; same shape as substrate | 20. What is the reaction called when a disaccharide is created from 2 monosaccharides? | Condensation | 21. What is exocytosis? | removal of material from a cell using vesicles | 22. What is the first part of a newly created strand called? | RNA primer | 23. What type of transport moves material against the concentration gradient with the use of energy? | active transport | 24. What is the indicator of proteins? | Biuret | 25. In what direction is a new strand of DNA made? | 5-3 | 26. What type of substances does water dissolve? | polar and ionic | 27. What factor affects the rate of diffusion? | temperature | 28. What process do prokaryotes use to divide? | binary fission | 29. What are the building blocks of nucleic acids? | nucleotides | 30. What are the building blocks of proteins? | amino acids | 31. What statistical test shows the difference between means of 2 different groups? | ttest | 32. What is the charge of oxygen in a polar water molecule? | negative | 33. How do enzymes speed up a chemical reaction? | lower activation energy | 34. What enzyme elongates the new DNA strand? | DNA polymerase III | 35. What type of bond exists between amino acids? | peptide | 36. What type of bond exists between monosaccharides? | glycosidic linkage | 37. What type of bond exists between glycerol and fatty acids? | ester | 38. What type of bond exists between nuecleotides? | phosphodiester | 39. What type of bond exists between the 3 parts of a nucleotide? | covalent | 40. The type of transport that requires a protein channel but no energy | facilitated diffusion | 41. Term used to describe the replication of DNA | semiconservative | 42. Results from unequal sharing of electrons | polarity | 43. What is essential for diffusion? | concentration gradient | 44. If a cell has a diameter of 10um and a student shows it with a diameter of 50mm, what is the magnification of the drawing? | x5000 | 45. In DNA, the 3' and 5" refer to_____ | carbon position | 46. Describe the structure of a phospholipid. | hydrophobic tail (Fatty acid), hydrophilic head (phosphate group) | 47. If a potato is placed in a hypertonic solution, what will happen? | shrink | 48. What is the purpose of cholesterol in a plasma membrane? | stabilize fluidity | 49. What is the term used to describe the shortest distance between 2 points that can be distinguished? | resolution | 50. How can cells in multicellular organisms differentiate? | express some but not all genes | 51. Model describing how proteins coated the surface of the cell membrane | Davson-Danielli | 52. Name of the current model of cell membrane | Singer-Nicholson | 53. The term used to describe what happens when a cell is place in a hypotonic solution? | Lysis | 54. What type of active transport moves 2 substances at the same time in opposite directions, ex. Na/K pump | antiport | 55. What type of molecules can diffuse easiest through the cell membrane? | small, hydrophobic | 56. A cell has cytoplasm, naked DNA and ribosomes, what type of cell is it? | prokaryote | 57. Calculate the standard deviation of: 45, 38, 52, 48, 25, 39, 51, 46, 55, 46 | 8.7 | 58. What is a series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell? | metabolism | 59. Describe anabolism | synthesis, water produced, enyzmes required | 60. Describe a saturated fatty acid | solid, single bonds, solid at room temp | 61. Compare the thermal properties of methane and water | Water=polar, higherWha density, specific heat, heat of vaporization, melting point and boiling point | 62. Why is solid water being less dense that liquid water important to living organisms? | aquatic animals can survive in cold environments | 63. Compare amylose and amylopectin. | both 1-4 link, amylopectin branched at 1-6 | 64. Compare cis and trans fatty acids. | cis (same side, usually liquid bc double bond causes bend) trans (opp side, usually solid, tightly pack bc linear) | 65. Compare lipids and carbohydrates for energy storage | carbs: quick, take up more mass bc stored with water, less energy/gram compared to lipids | 66. How is BMI calculated? | mass in kg/height in meters squared then compared to standard chart | 67. How is maltose made? | glucose + glucose | 68. Identify functions of lipids | membranes, insulation, store energy, waterproofing, hormones, protection | 69. What is a four ring lipid structure known as? | steroid | 70. What is the central dogma of genetics? | DNA to RNA to polypeptide | 71. If a polypeptide contains 25 amino acids how many different polypeptides could be created? | 20 to the 25th power | 72. Compare fibrous and globular proteins | F: long, narrow, mostly functions in structure, insoluble G: round, spherical, mostly function as enzymes, soluble | 73. What affects the proteome besides the genome? | environment, nutrition, temperature, activity levels | 74. Why does water need to be present for enzymatic reactions? | particles dissolved in water move in random motion that allow enzyme/substrate to come in contact with one another | 75. How is lactose free milk made? | lactase from yeast bound to alginate beads, milk passed over beads, lactose broken down into glucose and galactose | 76. What are 3 advantages commercially to lactose free milk? | increases sweetness, less crystallization when used in ice cream, lower production time in cheese and yogurts | 77. What indicator is used for simple sugars? | Benedicts solution |
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